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Inside the walls of London's Wandsworth Prison a gallows is maintained in working order, the trap door oiled and hanging beam polished. Even though Britain ended capital punishment in 1965, the issue has never been settled in the public mind. I.R.A. killings in Northern Ireland and Britain, along with rising criminality, have helped lead 77% of Britons, according to the latest Gallup poll, to favor the return of the death penalty for terrorist murderers. Last week the nation reached the climax of an emotional argument over the subject that divided the government, mobilized the clergy, aroused the police...
...Crimson track team is the most obvious example Three days after the Commencement ceremonies the team competed in Birmingham, England, the first of five meets in a trip that took them throughout England and into Ireland. The men's heavyweight crew team also sent Crimson representatives to the United Kingdom Harvard has entered two boats in the annual Henley Regatta, and 13 Crimson oarsmen plus a coach are presently preparing for that event...
Eighty-four years old, the Cambridge Oxford track meet is the oldest continuous international collegiate competition in the world, and it proved the highlight of the track team's two-week trip in England and Ireland. In other overseas meets, Harvard defeated Birmingham June 12 and Liverpool, Leeds and host Manchester June...
...Catholic rights in Northern Ireland. It is not a question, as it was in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe], of exchanging the bullet for the ballot. They have the ballot box, but they do not even take part in the Northern Ireland Assembly. What they do not like is that the ballot box does not give them the majority, and therefore some of them resort to the bullet and those few intimidate the others. Mind you, I understand the people of Northern Ireland; once you have got terrorism it paralyzes many people who would otherwise want to help. One must not judge...
...life makes the task of fundraising extremely problematic, because it is difficult to elicit funds for a cause whose effectiveness cannot be documented, Carstens says. Nonetheless, the IDAF raises millions of dollars a year that make their way to South Africa. But of the 10 national committees--in England, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, New Zealand, India and the U.S.--the American branch contributes the smallest amount, last year about...